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Bug#460499: lintian: No need to warn about missing short-description LSB header in init.d scripts



[Russ Allbery]
> Do you think we should drop it completely or just reduce it to info?

Reducing it to info is probably good.

> I think having a description is rather nice and may help figure out
> where an init script abandoned by some previous package came from
> without having to do as much research.  It still feels like a best
> practice thing even if it isn't used by software.

I agree, and this is the reason it was requested as a warning in the
first place.  But as it is more important to flag that provides,
required-start, required-stop, default-start and stop is present than
short-description, I believe it is a good idea to have two levels, and
thus drop the warning for short-description.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen



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